Category: Music

The steam punk section is a section that I always try to check out every time I’m MCM. It’s a section that always fascinates me. Although some of you may of noticed something like that from things like our Halloween video. The section always has a varied selection. Fashion and…

Music is something that’s been getting more popular at MCM. The MCM Fringe stage gets quite the draw. This year was no different. But this year the stage had a few special guests. Makeout Monday While the name Makeout Monday may not ring a bell, its semi-frontman will as it’s…

Wil managed to get to talk to YouTube Todd Bryanton AKA LilDeuceDeuce, best known for making the music for Youtubers like Tomska as well as movies and TV. You can see the full and uncut interview here: We did a spotlight on his latest project, his IndieGoGo campaign for more…

It is clear that the DIY facility of the tape scene has fostered in London’s Jimmy Billingham a great deal of prolificacy. Having driven labels such as S.I.N.K. CDs, Sunk Series, and now Indole Records, and procured tapes under monikers as various as Tidal and HOLOVR, his footprint in the…

For all its obscurity and its masked existence, Dragged Into Sunlight is an amazingly no-bull*** band where it matters most. Hailing from the UK, the hybrid metal outfit has perched itself as its own sort of black hole in between subgenres, amassing a cult following from several different reaches in…

Now that I have finally downloaded the last.fm app for chrome, my fashionably-late self can now acquire more accurate play counts for all the stuff I listen to outside of itunes. Yayyy. On the menu this month is plenty of metal and atmospheric/ambient drone, with a couple odd vaporwave artists…

Welcome to the casino. Welcome to the glitzy hallways and illustrious palaces ringing with the sound of coins tantalizing throughout the room. Step inside to a realm where traditional doctrine of album construction is no longer mandated – the world where the game takes sole priority. The only music heard…

Contending quietly for the mallsoft microgenre, Hantasi finds deviance from the vaporwave breed by situating it’s proverbial a e s t h e t i c s in a more traditional setting. Visions of old America are set into a dizzy swing-and-sway by way of rose-tinted horns, slow ragtime pianos,…

Repetition in music is a nuance best served with confidence. Throughout the ever-growing exploration of sound, it’s been pretty clearly defined that if you repeat or loop some major instance or movement of the music, it should successfully achieve a long-term goal of some kind, or at the very least…

In the world of album artwork, there’s an adage that sticks to a certain portion of the population. Any artwork over history depicting the artist doing what they do – that is, performing the music – with little more than the artist’s face, with or without their instrument, is the…